My apologies- having never written a pymol script in my life, it never occurred to me that your "cd" was a pymol command. All my examples were from the DOS shell.
Still it may be helpful that the DOS 8.3 (Progra~1) names work. You can get the short name of your directory by DIR/x (from the dos shell) in the directory above. David A. Horita wrote: > Thanks for the replies/suggestions. Looks like I may need to upgrade from > v1.1, but: > > cd \"program files", "\program files", and \program?files give a variant of > > PyMOL>cd \"program files" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Program Files\DeLano > Scientific\PyMOL/modules\pymol\externing.py", line 46, in cd > os.chdir(dir) # raises on error > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '\\"program files"' > > > cd \progra~1 does work, however. > Pymol 1.1r1 running on Vista (32-bit) Business. > > -David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward A. Berry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Mon 9/20/2010 2:03 PM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] cd in windows > > David A. Horita wrote: >> Hi, >> How does one change directories in Windows when the directory name has a >> space in it? I've tried double and single quotes as well as backslash >> space (I'd like to run a script that's in such a directory). >> Thanks >> David > > These all work for me: > >cd \"program files" > > >cd "\program files" > > >cd \program?files > > >dir/x \prog* > 06/05/2010 10:02p<DIR> PROGRA~1 > >cd \progra~1 > > Or run in your data directory using full path of the executable: > >\"program files"\seamonkey\seamonkey.exe > > (seamonkey is artemia the brine shrimp, you understand. > Diminutive alternative to thunderbird and firefox) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list ([email protected]) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
